The Passion of the Christ (Full Screen Edition)
by Mel Gibson
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Actor: Christo Jivkov, Francesco De Vito, Jim Caviezel, Maia Morgenstern, Monica BellucciDirector: Mel Gibson
Brand: FOX Home Entertainment
Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel
Producer: Mel Gibson
Writer: Mel Gibson
Producer: Bruce Davey
Producer: Enzo Sisti
Producer: Stephen McEveety
Writer: Benedict Fitzgerald
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Hebrew (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-31
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Passion of the Christ (Full Screen Edition)
Movie Review: Bravo; Well done; Excellent job
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is great; very well organized, script is wonderfully written, the soundtrack is awesome, the performances are terrific, and the way that the story is presented is incredible. It will captivate your attention from beginning to end. It is Biblically and historically accurate. The movie is very violent, but there are popular video games that are more violent and the content of James Bond movies are worse than the Passion of the Christ.
The movie has some parts that are not mentioned in the Bible, or history, but do bring the movie to life and/or help develop the Gospel in the movie. For instance, in the movie, Satan follows Jesus the whole way trying to tempt Jesus not to die on the cross so that Jesus would not provide salvation from sin, and when Jesus dies, Satan is screaming from Hell because he realizes that he has lost the war.
While I may not agree with all the little details, I whole-heartedly agree with the Big Picture presented in the movie. Jesus Christ is not just presented as a good man and good moral teacher; but also as the Son of God, Savior and Redeemer of the world, the promised Messiah, Sovereign Ruler of the University, and descendant of Israel's King David and the future King of the Jews who will restore the throne of David forever.
When I first saw that Hollywood was making a movie about the last 12 hours of the life of Jesus Christ, I thought, `Oh no, here comes another secular version of Jesus.' But when I saw the movie in theaters, I was blown away.
Christians can definitely use the Passion of the Christ as a witnessing tool. The movie does not present the whole Gospel. There are lots of little abstract lines, such as: when Jesus is carrying the cross, he says to his mother, "I am making all things new." The movie does not thoroughly explain the whole story, but it presents a good part of it. Therefore, Christians must be ready to explain the rest.
`The Passion of the Christ' has been called anti-Jewish; but it is no more anti-Jewish than `Schindler's List' is anti-German. Is Tolstoy's `War and Peace' anti-French? Is James Fennimore Cooper's `Last of the Mohicans' anti-American Indian? Is `Red Dawn' anti-Russian? Is Orwell's `1984' racist toward anyone? I believe the answer is `no'. For all of the Jews and Gentiles who condemned Jesus, a significant number believed that Jesus Christ was innocent and followed him. Besides, despite all that happened, Jesus willingly went through everything.
Anyone who truly understands the Christian Bible will understand that the Jews, who are also the children of Israel, are God's chosen people forever, (Gen. 15:18, Gen. 17, Ex. 6:4-5, Lev. 26:42-45, Deut. 4:31, Deut. 4:37, Deut. 5:2-3, Deut. 7:9, Deut. 8:18, Deut. 10:15, Jud. 2:1, 2Sa. 7:24, 2Kings 13:23, 1Ch. 16:15-17, 1Ch 17:22, Ps. 105:8-10, Isa. 54:10, Jer. 30:9, Jer. 31:33, Eze. 20:5, Eze. 37:19-28, Da. 11:32, Hos. 1:17, Hos. 3:5, Zeph. 2:7, Zech. 10:6, Zech. 12:5). God spoke of the children of Israel when he said "They will be my people and I will be their God," (Gen. 17:8, Ex. 29:45-46, Lev. 26:12, 2Sa 7:24, 1Ch. 17:22, 2Ch 6:1-11, Ps. 50:7, Jer. 7:23, Jer. 11:4, Jer. 24:7, Jer. 30:9, Jer. 30:22, Jer. 31:1, Jer. 31:33, Jer.32:38, Jer. 50:4, Eze. 11:20, Eze. 14:9-11, Eze. 34:24, Eze. 34:30, Eze. 36:28, Eze. 37:12-13, Eze. 37:23, Eze. 37:27, Eze. 39:7, Hos. 1:10, Hos. 2:23, Joel 2:26-27, Zeph. 2:9, Zech. 8:8, Zech. 10:6, Zech. 13:9). Moses also spoke of the promised Messiah when he said to Israel, "God will raise up another prophet like me from among you," (Deut. 18:15). God spoke through the prophet Isaiah about the Messiah when he said "It is too small a task for my Holy One to redeem Israel, I shall make him a light to the Gentiles," (Isa. 49:6-7). Jesus Christ said of the Law of Moses and the prophets, "I have not come to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it," (Matt. 5:17).
Many of us are familiar with Mel Gibson's recent law violation, when he was pulled over for drunk driving and then slandered the Jewish people. I do not hold it against him since he was quick to confess and admit he was wrong; he asked for forgiveness; he agreed to restitution and he is working to not make the same mistake again. I hope other people will forgive him too.
This is a great movie for everyone regardless of age, race, or creed. Since it is violent, Parents should watch this movie before allowing children under 14 to watch it. Eastern Orthodox Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Atheists, Agnostics, Homosexuals, Humanists, Animists and even Satan worshippers should watch the Passion of the Christ.
"The Passion of the Christ" will stand alongside with other epics like "The Ten Commandments"
Summary of The Passion of the Christ (Full Screen Edition)
The Passion of the Christ focuses on the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life. The film begins in the Garden of Olives where Jesus has gone to pray after the Last Supper. Jesus must resist the temptations of Satan. Betrayed by Judas Iscariot, Jesus is then arrested and taken within the city walls of Jerusalem where leaders of the Pharisees confront him with accusations of blasphemy and his trial results in a condemnation to death.After all the controversy and rigorous debate has subsided, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ will remain a force to be reckoned with. In the final analysis, "Gibson's Folly" is an act of personal bravery and commitment on the part of its director, who self-financed this $25-30 million production to preserve his artistic goal of creating the Passion of Christ ("Passion" in this context meaning "suffering") as a quite literal, in-your-face interpretation of the final 12 hours in the life of Jesus, scripted almost directly from the gospels (and spoken in Aramaic and Latin with a relative minimum of subtitles) and presented as a relentless, 126-minute ordeal of torture and crucifixion. For Christians and non-Christians alike, this film does not "entertain," and it's not a film that one can "like" or "dislike" in any conventional sense. (It is also emphatically not a film for children or the weak of heart.) Rather, The Passion is a cinematic experience that serves an almost singular purpose: to show the scourging and death of Jesus Christ in such horrifically graphic detail (with Gibson's own hand pounding the nails in the cross) that even non-believers may feel a twinge of sorrow and culpability in witnessing the final moments of the Son of God, played by Jim Caviezel in a performance that's not so much acting as a willful act of submission, so intense that some will weep not only for Christ, but for Caviezel's unparalleled test of endurance.
Leave it to the intelligentsia to debate the film's alleged anti-Semitic slant; if one judges what is on the screen (so gloriously served by John Debney's score and Caleb Deschanel's cinematography), there is fuel for debate but no obvious malice aforethought; the Jews under Caiaphas are just as guilty as the barbaric Romans who carry out the execution, especially after Gibson excised (from the subtitles, if not the soundtrack) the film's most controversial line of dialogue. If one accepts that Gibson's intentions are sincere, The Passion can be accepted for what it is: a grueling, straightforward (some might say unimaginative) and extremely violent depiction of the Passion, guaranteed to render devout Christians speechless while it intensifies their faith. Non-believers are likely to take a more dispassionate view, and some may resort to ridicule. But one thing remains undebatable: with The Passion of the Christ, Gibson put his money where his mouth is. You can praise or damn him all you want, but you've got to admire his chutzpah. --Jeff Shannon
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